FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY : UNPUBLISHED RECORDS. 39 
After a vote of thanks to the noble chairman had been passed, 
the meeting separated. 
On the 5th September, 1839, the president, Earl Fitzwilliam, 
presided at a meeting held at Wakefield. The Rev. W. Thorp read 
a paper on the Coal measures South and North of the River Calder, 
and Dr. Wright explained a model of a gin, which had been con- 
structed by his father. 
The foundation and early history of the society comprised in the 
two first years of its existence have now been traced. During this 
time the proceedings of the society were unpublished, and the sources 
of information have been restricted ; without the help, so generously 
afforded by Mr. T. W. Embleton, any connected history would have 
been impossible, except of the most meagre description, and it has 
been a fortunate circumstance in connection with this part of the 
Society's history, that Mr. Embleton, during the first five years of 
Society's existence, carefully preserved the published reports and 
printed rules, together with an almost daily record in his diary of 
the meetings, and doings of the council and its several members, all 
which have been unreservedly placed at the disposal of the writer. 
